Scholarship

My academic scholarship and research interests

I believe biblical interpretation consists of cultural, communal, and contextual practices; in other words, human enterprises. And human relationships represent complex modes of being. For me, the special key for the future comes with the body—the body engrossed in delineations, pleasures, suppressions, touch, un/stabilizations, gendered constructions and relationships. Behind and beyond theory and text, embodied humans linger. Clumsily, gracefully, tip-toeing, tromping, balancing, and mis/handling, humans create text, touch the text, put boundaries on the text, and read the text. Due to the proliferation of bodily identities and positions in a complex world, the ones entrusted with biblical interpretation, especially ones like me—white, middle-class, main-line Protestant—must continue to find ways to make room for one another, to destabilize hegemonic declarations so that multiple communities can enter into conversations, and to ethically examine one's own perspective based on one's communities in order to connect with the larger world.

"Katherine's gifted writing incorporates the literary and visual culture of Job with delightful interdisciplinary research that leads us inquisitively on a journey through ongoing discourse and artistic representations for more than two thousand years."
– Dr. Leo Perdue, Dissertation Director

Monograph/Book

Encyclopedia Articles

"Job's Wife: Judaism; Visual Arts; Christianity; Literature; Hebrew Bible/Old Testament" in Volume 14 of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, published by DeGruyterhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/db/ebr

Book Reviews

Major review of Samuel Balentine's Have You Considered my Servant Job? Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, January 2017.http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/intc/current